Reading For Kids Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old reading for kids quotes, reading for kids sayings, and reading for kids proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B. F. Skinner
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B. F. Skinner
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. C.S. Lewis
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child Dr. Seuss
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. Dr. Seuss
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go Dr. Seuss
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free Frederick Douglass
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. George W. Bush
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings. Helen Hayes
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place. J.K. Rowling
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body Joseph Addison
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Lady Montagu
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own. Mem Fox
Anything that gets children reading is fine. Michael Morpurgo
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Mortimer Adler
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. Roald Dahl
Teach a child how to think, not what to think. Sidney Sugarman
You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a mother who read to me. Strickland Gillilan
Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months. T. Berry Brazelton
Books train your mind to imagination to think big Taylor Swift
A child who reads will be an adult who thinks. unknown
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo